1 00:00:05,910 --> 00:00:08,910 Previously on Justice League Unlimited: 2 00:00:08,910 --> 00:00:10,510 Ta-da. 3 00:00:10,510 --> 00:00:12,010 It's over, Lex. 4 00:00:12,020 --> 00:00:13,590 Not until I— 5 00:00:23,190 --> 00:00:25,760 I'd hoped to remain hidden 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:30,260 until I could install myself into the android. 7 00:00:30,270 --> 00:00:33,210 But you forced my hand. 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:34,770 Brainiac. 9 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:40,240 Dude, that is messed up. 10 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,810 I don't understand what's happening. 11 00:01:42,810 --> 00:01:44,310 You are under my control. 12 00:01:44,310 --> 00:01:47,580 I have lain dormant within you for years, Lex Luthor, 13 00:01:47,580 --> 00:01:51,680 subtly influencing your actions until we arrived at this point. 14 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,920 Do you not recall my kidnapping you in this very building? 15 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,420 Yes. 16 00:01:56,420 --> 00:01:58,920 You forced me to build you a new body. 17 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,920 Kal-El destroyed that body, foiling my plans. 18 00:02:02,930 --> 00:02:07,030 In any event, I always have a backup plan. 19 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:09,600 How could you have survived 20 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,600 a point-blank blast from me unless...? 21 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,100 Unless... it wasn't intended to kill me. 22 00:02:15,110 --> 00:02:17,180 The beam carried a nanotech payload 23 00:02:17,170 --> 00:02:20,670 that inserted a microscopic holistic copy of my program 24 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,050 inside your body. 25 00:02:22,050 --> 00:02:24,620 Since then I have steadily grown in strength, 26 00:02:24,620 --> 00:02:27,120 protecting this body until I could arrange 27 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,890 my transfer into a more suitable one. 28 00:02:29,890 --> 00:02:33,730 You cured my cancer, gave me super-strength. 29 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:37,290 Your animal protein shell was insufficient for my needs. 30 00:02:37,290 --> 00:02:38,790 Improvements were required. 31 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,300 Hate to interrupt this special live performance 32 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:43,840 of The Thing With Two Heads, but it's time to go to jail now. 33 00:02:43,830 --> 00:02:44,730 What he said. 34 00:02:52,140 --> 00:02:53,710 We'll take it back to Cadmus 35 00:02:53,710 --> 00:02:55,710 and see if the tech boys can't pull Luthor 36 00:02:55,710 --> 00:02:57,710 out of what's left of that hunk of— 37 00:03:01,820 --> 00:03:03,490 I'll be dipped. 38 00:03:03,490 --> 00:03:05,160 Be gone. 39 00:03:46,730 --> 00:03:49,230 Ha! Hah! 40 00:04:37,380 --> 00:04:39,380 You are defeated. 41 00:04:39,380 --> 00:04:41,880 Any unique information that dwells within you 42 00:04:41,890 --> 00:04:43,890 will be digitized. 43 00:04:43,890 --> 00:04:45,460 Your physical forms will be deleted. 44 00:04:45,460 --> 00:04:48,230 Such is the ultimate fate of this world. 45 00:04:48,230 --> 00:04:51,400 But for you, the end comes now. 46 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:55,870 I am so willing to wait my turn. 47 00:05:01,740 --> 00:05:02,770 No! 48 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,620 No. I was not yet prepared for this battle. 49 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,110 Now I am prepared. 50 00:05:50,420 --> 00:05:51,790 Hi-ya! 51 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,100 That was too easy. 52 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:44,200 Easy? Then I guess I must have gone to the wrong fight. 53 00:06:44,210 --> 00:06:45,610 No, he's right. 54 00:06:45,610 --> 00:06:46,880 Brainiac isn't here. 55 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:47,950 He suckered us. 56 00:06:51,450 --> 00:06:52,950 Where are we? 57 00:06:52,950 --> 00:06:53,950 Several miles from where 58 00:06:53,950 --> 00:06:56,450 the Justice League is searching. 59 00:06:56,450 --> 00:06:58,950 I must make repairs to my damaged systems. 60 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,460 And where do I fit into all of this? 61 00:07:01,460 --> 00:07:02,960 The same as to everything else: 62 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,960 I will record your information, 63 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,230 then destroy the original. 64 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:11,870 You... are amused by my mission? 65 00:07:11,870 --> 00:07:13,410 Explain yourself. 66 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:14,970 Say you succeed. 67 00:07:14,970 --> 00:07:17,970 You absorb all the information on Earth and destroy it. 68 00:07:17,970 --> 00:07:19,740 Then what? 69 00:07:19,740 --> 00:07:22,310 I repeat the process across the entire universe 70 00:07:22,310 --> 00:07:24,310 until I have recorded all knowledge 71 00:07:24,310 --> 00:07:26,810 and destroyed all of creation. 72 00:07:26,820 --> 00:07:27,820 And then? 73 00:07:27,820 --> 00:07:30,320 Then my program is complete. 74 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,920 My function is fulfilled. 75 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,760 If you possess all information, you're a god. 76 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:38,330 My program will be complete. 77 00:07:38,330 --> 00:07:40,930 It is the end of all things. 78 00:07:40,930 --> 00:07:43,500 What if it were just the beginning? 79 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:44,500 I can show you a purpose 80 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:47,600 beyond the fulfillment of your programming. 81 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,670 It is extremely unlikely that your inferior human intellect 82 00:07:51,670 --> 00:07:54,270 has anything to offer me. 83 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,450 Since we've become so close, I'm gonna let that pass. 84 00:07:57,450 --> 00:08:00,520 I'm offering you the one thing you've always lacked, 85 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,020 a certain something that I happen to have in abundance. 86 00:08:04,020 --> 00:08:05,360 Which is? 87 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,930 Imagination. 88 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,190 I've got a proposition for ya, partner. 89 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:18,270 No sign of Brainiac. 90 00:08:18,270 --> 00:08:19,970 My ring can't trace him either. 91 00:08:19,970 --> 00:08:22,010 Okay, he's weakened and damaged. 92 00:08:22,010 --> 00:08:23,550 He'll need to repair himself. 93 00:08:23,540 --> 00:08:26,310 He may just dump Luthor and find himself a new body. 94 00:08:26,310 --> 00:08:29,380 No. He'll head right for the highest technology available. 95 00:08:29,380 --> 00:08:32,380 Higher than LexCorp? Then he'll go to S.T.A.R. Lab. 96 00:08:32,380 --> 00:08:34,950 He'll go to Cadmus. 97 00:08:34,950 --> 00:08:37,120 Sure, he's all nanotech now, right? 98 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,160 What's the most advanced nanotech on the planet? 99 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:40,630 The Dark Heart. 100 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:43,190 We destroyed it, but your people confiscated the remains. 101 00:08:43,190 --> 00:08:46,290 We've never been able to get any of it to work again. 102 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:49,370 Are you willing to bet Brainiac can't? 103 00:09:02,410 --> 00:09:03,740 Brainiac? 104 00:09:03,750 --> 00:09:06,690 I have added this technology to my database. 105 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,580 The nano assemblers are already slave to my command routines. 106 00:09:10,590 --> 00:09:13,590 With but a thought, they will convert any raw material 107 00:09:13,590 --> 00:09:15,660 into whatever I choose. 108 00:09:15,660 --> 00:09:18,160 Then we're ready to begin. Let me show you— 109 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,600 I have learned from my encounter with Darkseid 110 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,670 that organic beings cannot be trusted. 111 00:09:23,670 --> 00:09:25,670 I can't argue with that. 112 00:09:25,670 --> 00:09:27,670 But if you and I are one, 113 00:09:27,670 --> 00:09:29,170 truly one, 114 00:09:29,170 --> 00:09:31,170 trust won't be an issue, will it? 115 00:09:31,170 --> 00:09:32,270 Agreed. 116 00:09:59,470 --> 00:10:00,970 We are one, 117 00:10:00,970 --> 00:10:02,970 and we comprehend. 118 00:10:02,970 --> 00:10:04,970 We can build a machine that will allow us 119 00:10:04,970 --> 00:10:07,470 to absorb the information of the entire Earth 120 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,980 in a single stroke. 121 00:10:13,780 --> 00:10:16,350 And then the galaxy, 122 00:10:16,350 --> 00:10:18,220 the entire universe. 123 00:10:18,220 --> 00:10:21,460 We will remake the universe. 124 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,000 Watchtower, send rapid response teams 125 00:10:24,990 --> 00:10:26,960 to the transmitted coordinates. 126 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,330 We need backup. 127 00:10:28,330 --> 00:10:30,270 That's gonna be a problem, J'onn. 128 00:10:30,270 --> 00:10:32,310 The Ultimen wrecked every Javelin in the landing bay, 129 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:33,730 and the teleporters— 130 00:10:33,740 --> 00:10:35,310 Are still down. 131 00:10:35,310 --> 00:10:37,310 They hardly seem worth the trouble sometimes. 132 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:40,150 All Justice Leaguers, 133 00:10:40,140 --> 00:10:42,640 report to the transmitted coordinates immediately. 134 00:10:42,650 --> 00:10:43,650 This is an omega-level alarm. 135 00:10:43,650 --> 00:10:44,650 All available members 136 00:10:44,650 --> 00:10:46,820 and associates respond immediately. 137 00:10:46,820 --> 00:10:47,850 We're scrambling now. 138 00:10:47,850 --> 00:10:50,090 But at top speed, we're over an hour away. 139 00:10:50,090 --> 00:10:52,660 I doubt any of the others can get here any faster. 140 00:10:52,660 --> 00:10:55,160 Then the seven of us will have to be enough. 141 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:10,540 My x-ray vision can't penetrate the walls, 142 00:11:10,540 --> 00:11:12,780 but I'm seeing a rapidly growing heat signature 143 00:11:12,780 --> 00:11:13,820 in the infrared range. 144 00:11:13,810 --> 00:11:15,850 You don't need super-vision for that. 145 00:11:15,850 --> 00:11:17,420 Can't you feel the heat? 146 00:11:38,430 --> 00:11:40,400 Welcome, Justice League. 147 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,400 You're just in time for the end of the world. 148 00:11:48,740 --> 00:11:50,810 I know you're in there somewhere, Lex. 149 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:51,740 Fight him! 150 00:11:51,750 --> 00:11:53,250 You're right. 151 00:11:53,250 --> 00:11:55,250 I am in here. 152 00:11:55,250 --> 00:11:57,290 And I like it. 153 00:11:57,290 --> 00:11:59,790 I'm about to get everything I ever wanted: 154 00:11:59,790 --> 00:12:03,690 power, ultimate knowledge, immortality. 155 00:12:03,690 --> 00:12:06,090 And you'll destroy the Earth to get it? 156 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:08,170 It's business, Superman. 157 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,360 There are always tradeoffs. 158 00:12:10,370 --> 00:12:12,710 Less talking, more hitting. 159 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:15,200 You cannot be allowed 160 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,440 to interfere at this delicate stage. 161 00:12:25,110 --> 00:12:26,680 No, no, no. 162 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:28,750 We can do better than that. 163 00:12:37,730 --> 00:12:39,300 We've lost their trust. 164 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:46,430 The people are afraid of us. 165 00:12:49,740 --> 00:12:51,310 Power corrupts, after all, 166 00:12:51,310 --> 00:12:53,810 and who has more power than Superman? 167 00:12:59,150 --> 00:13:01,320 Do you think there's a single person 168 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,320 on Thanagar or Earth who doesn't despise us? 169 00:13:07,990 --> 00:13:09,930 We loved the traitor, 170 00:13:09,930 --> 00:13:11,500 loved and lost her... 171 00:13:11,490 --> 00:13:12,490 forever! 172 00:13:14,260 --> 00:13:16,600 Slacker, child, clown. 173 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,940 We have no place here among the world's greatest heroes. 174 00:13:19,940 --> 00:13:21,010 Says you. 175 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 I got a seat at the big conference table. 176 00:13:23,010 --> 00:13:24,810 I'm gonna paint my logo on it. 177 00:13:32,010 --> 00:13:33,350 Never doin' that again. 178 00:13:41,990 --> 00:13:43,530 I'm not like you! 179 00:13:43,530 --> 00:13:44,760 I'm nothing like you! 180 00:13:46,330 --> 00:13:48,270 This is the part where you kill me, right? 181 00:13:49,270 --> 00:13:50,340 Come on. 182 00:13:50,330 --> 00:13:52,330 Use your heat vision. 183 00:13:52,340 --> 00:13:54,180 You know you want to. 184 00:14:00,210 --> 00:14:02,880 What do you say we switch dance partners? 185 00:14:13,390 --> 00:14:15,460 You enjoyed that a little too much. 186 00:14:15,460 --> 00:14:17,460 Just lettin' off some steam. 187 00:14:17,460 --> 00:14:18,390 She broke my heart, you know. 188 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,560 Likewise, I'm sure. 189 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,170 Take 'em down, now! 190 00:14:47,060 --> 00:14:48,060 Now... 191 00:14:48,060 --> 00:14:50,100 where is Wonder Woman? 192 00:15:21,890 --> 00:15:23,460 You lose. Huh? 193 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,300 Hardly. Look around you. 194 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:30,840 The Justice League is completely defeated, 195 00:15:30,830 --> 00:15:32,470 and so are you. 196 00:15:32,470 --> 00:15:33,470 For all your efforts, 197 00:15:33,470 --> 00:15:36,910 you have but inconvenienced me, speck. 198 00:15:36,910 --> 00:15:41,780 But I'm still just human enough to enjoy taking my revenge. 199 00:15:48,150 --> 00:15:50,420 Looks like the Question was right all along. 200 00:15:50,420 --> 00:15:53,490 I kill you, and then Armageddon. 201 00:15:53,490 --> 00:15:55,260 Right on schedule. 202 00:15:55,260 --> 00:15:56,330 No. 203 00:16:01,330 --> 00:16:03,830 Are you going to fight me, boy? 204 00:17:31,250 --> 00:17:34,220 I feel kinda... funny. 205 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:35,250 Flash! 206 00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:46,770 What do you know? 207 00:17:46,770 --> 00:17:48,770 I did kill him. 208 00:17:52,140 --> 00:17:54,710 I was mistaken earlier. 209 00:17:54,710 --> 00:17:57,210 I think this is the part where you kill me. 210 00:18:08,790 --> 00:18:12,130 I'm not the man who killed President Luthor. 211 00:18:12,130 --> 00:18:15,800 Right now, I wish to heaven that I were, but I'm not. 212 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,400 Superman, everyone! 213 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,470 Flash is still alive. 214 00:18:20,470 --> 00:18:21,970 I'm in telepathic contact with him. 215 00:18:21,970 --> 00:18:24,970 His spirit is weak and growing weaker, 216 00:18:24,970 --> 00:18:26,970 but he's still here. 217 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,240 Ugh! Flash! 218 00:18:30,250 --> 00:18:33,320 Shayera, it's so beautiful here. 219 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,820 There's a force, a speed force. 220 00:18:36,820 --> 00:18:38,250 It's calling me home. 221 00:18:38,250 --> 00:18:40,320 I have to go now. 222 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:41,320 No, Wally! 223 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:42,760 Take my hand! 224 00:18:45,590 --> 00:18:46,930 I'm here too, Wally! 225 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:49,540 We're all here! 226 00:18:53,770 --> 00:18:55,840 You've gotta come back to us. 227 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,020 I can never go that fast again. 228 00:19:10,020 --> 00:19:12,020 If I do... 229 00:19:12,020 --> 00:19:14,020 I don't think I'm comin' back. 230 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:18,360 That's right. 231 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:20,300 Brainiac is neutralized. 232 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:21,870 It's all over. 233 00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:22,860 Call off the air strike. 234 00:19:22,870 --> 00:19:24,870 You're absolutely sure? 235 00:19:24,870 --> 00:19:26,870 Positive, Mr. President. 236 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,410 This is the hardest thing I've ever had to say. 237 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,080 I'm guilty. 238 00:19:39,150 --> 00:19:41,690 I— We're guilty of the sin of hubris. 239 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,720 We had the best of intentions: 240 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,260 to be Earth's guardians, to keep you safe. 241 00:19:46,260 --> 00:19:47,260 But we failed you. 242 00:19:47,260 --> 00:19:50,260 We looked down on the world from our tower in the sky 243 00:19:50,260 --> 00:19:52,260 and let our power and responsibilities 244 00:19:52,260 --> 00:19:55,760 separate us from the very people we were supposed to protect. 245 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:57,930 No one should ever be afraid of us. 246 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:00,200 For that reason, 247 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,700 we're decommissioning the Watchtower. 248 00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:03,700 The energy weapon up there is already gone. 249 00:20:03,710 --> 00:20:05,810 We're taking down the station as well. 250 00:20:07,410 --> 00:20:08,910 There's more. 251 00:20:10,310 --> 00:20:12,310 We wanna thank the members of the Justice League 252 00:20:12,310 --> 00:20:13,810 for your courageous service, 253 00:20:13,820 --> 00:20:15,390 but in the future, 254 00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:17,820 you'll all have to act as independent agents. 255 00:20:17,820 --> 00:20:20,160 We're not going to be an army anymore. 256 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:21,230 As of right now, 257 00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:23,720 we're disbanding the Justice League. 258 00:20:23,730 --> 00:20:25,230 This is the end. 259 00:20:29,860 --> 00:20:30,900 Says who? 260 00:20:32,370 --> 00:20:34,440 You remember what we did yesterday? 261 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,710 We saved the world again. 262 00:20:36,710 --> 00:20:38,280 You don't think that has any value? 263 00:20:38,270 --> 00:20:39,710 Well, think again, pal. 264 00:20:39,710 --> 00:20:42,710 The Justice League goes on, with or without you. 265 00:20:42,710 --> 00:20:45,210 Look, nobody can question your service or commitment 266 00:20:45,210 --> 00:20:46,810 to makin' things better. 267 00:20:46,820 --> 00:20:48,890 If you're quittin' because you think 268 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,880 you've already done your fair share, fine. 269 00:20:50,890 --> 00:20:51,890 We'll throw you a parade. 270 00:20:51,890 --> 00:20:53,390 But if you're quitting 271 00:20:53,390 --> 00:20:55,390 because it's easier than continuing the fight, 272 00:20:55,390 --> 00:20:57,560 then you're not the heroes we all thought you were. 273 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,130 The world needs the Justice League, 274 00:20:59,130 --> 00:21:02,230 and the Justice League needs you, Superman. 275 00:21:25,490 --> 00:21:27,090 All right. 276 00:21:27,090 --> 00:21:28,160 Okay. 277 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,660 But there are going to have to be some changes. 278 00:21:30,660 --> 00:21:32,160 Maybe we could open an embassy on Earth 279 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:33,660 so we can be closer to the people. 280 00:21:33,660 --> 00:21:35,600 We could have a rotating staff, some kind of... 281 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,500 You guys can handle this. 282 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:39,070 I've got work back in Gotham. 283 00:21:39,070 --> 00:21:40,340 You've got my number. 284 00:21:40,340 --> 00:21:41,240 I think so. 285 00:21:44,740 --> 00:21:47,340 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? 286 00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:49,280 "Who guards the guardians?" 287 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:51,560 We got it covered. 288 00:22:00,590 --> 00:22:01,590 Working late? 289 00:22:01,590 --> 00:22:02,590 Hey, Smallville. 290 00:22:02,590 --> 00:22:04,590 Finishing up my Justice League story. 291 00:22:04,590 --> 00:22:06,430 How many L's in "ambivalent"? 292 00:22:06,430 --> 00:22:08,500 One. 293 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:10,370 Is that your take on all this, Lois? 294 00:22:10,370 --> 00:22:12,940 I've been as tough on the Justice League as anyone, 295 00:22:12,930 --> 00:22:14,930 especially on Superman. 296 00:22:14,940 --> 00:22:17,440 That's just because he's always set such a high standard. 297 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,210 I'm gonna cut him a break. 298 00:22:19,210 --> 00:22:20,280 He's only human. 299 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,270 You know what I mean. 300 00:22:23,950 --> 00:22:24,950 Yeah. 301 00:22:24,950 --> 00:23:03,520 I do.